...Yep: the anti-immigrant crowd. At today's raid/media circus at Republican congressional candidate/alleged anti-Latino letter sender Tan Nguyen's office, a contingent of fogies from the California Coalition for Immigration Reform--apparently forgiving Nguyen for faking their letterhead and sending a letter off to 14,000 voters--told anyone who would listen that Nguyen was right: immigrants shouldn't vote. Now another organization, the U.S. Immigration Reform PAC, has issued this statement. In part:
The Washington, D.C.- based U.S. Immigration Reform Political Action Committee (USIRP) reiterated its endorsement for congressional candidate Tan D. Nguyen and said it sees "nothing wrong" with a bulk-mail flier his campaign sent to the foreign-born in Orange County, Calif., warning that illegal immigrants cannot vote.
USIRP Communications Director Phil Kent said, "What is wrong with sending a message that immigrants here illegally cannot vote in elections? A campaign or individual has every right to disseminate that opinion under the First Amendment -- especially when you consider this is the No. 1 suspect district in the country because state and federal probes revealed over 1,000 illegal aliens voted in the 1996 November's congressional election."
Hey, pendejos: Nguyen's letter also said no immigrants can vote, which is a lie. It was also sent to Latino voters, which qualifies as voter intimidation, which qualifies as breaking federal law. For an organization devoted to combating lawbreakers, it's strange for you folks to support one, no?
October 21, 2006 11:10
So ridiculous. If these allegations (about Nguyen consenting/directing the mail messages) turn out to be true, the Vietnamese community has another reason to be ashamed of its own. The Vietnamese community is, after all, full of immigrants as well.
Maybe his actions also show some underlying disappointment toward existing immigration policies that make it quite hard for Vietnamese to enter the US, while immigrants from other origins have a more successful time entering legally as well as illegally?
October 21, 2006 16:10
Why are people becoming so hateful in this country? This nation is full of imigrants, and their not all bad.....Why pick on only the Mexicans.... Also who is going to go pick all the fruits and vegetables? Nobody I know wants to work that hard for the little money they make. Maybe some of the hatemongers can do it... Imagine what we are going to have pay for alittle fruit and vegtables for our families...
Why not just take a special tax and stick it the bucket of expenses needed for having them here. Also just get the fences up and it will slow down the tide of those coming in.
October 22, 2006 18:10
Don't forget the CCIR banner at the top - no explanation for that tidy piece of MAIL FRAUD yet.
Screw you Tan, you're turning Orange County into a laughing-stock!
Maybe I should forget the elections and just watch TV. Arrested Development, or maybe The OC. Or the Real OC. Real Housewives of Orange County maybe. Oh, Comedy Central's showing the Orange County movie!
Nevermind - thank you, Tan, for being characteristic of our utterly ridiculous global image.
October 23, 2006 06:10
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